> YAML.pm, line 557, currently has a folding value of 50 hard-coded.
> It would be great if this value became an option... for those who
> prefer not to fold, or fold less.

I wanted that too. The attached patch adds in the $YAML::FoldLimit
config variable to achieve this. I've also got a doc patch which
describes this, but 'RT' only has one file-upload field so that'll be in
the next comment ...
Smylers

--- /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/YAML.pod Mon Jun 24 07:52:51 2002
+++ ./YAML.pod Wed May 25 12:07:11 2005
@@ -389,6 +389,14 @@
Force every possible scalar to be block formatted. NOTE: Escape characters
cannot be formatted in a block scalar.
+=item FoldLimit
+
+The maximum length a simple string can be without being folded. Defaults to 50.
+Note that this doesn't take indentation into account: a string 50 characters
+long inside a nested data structure will not fit into a window that's only 50
+characters wide. Set $FoldLimit to 0 to allow strings of arbitrary length to
+avoid folding.
+
=item UseFold
If you want to force YAML to use the 'folded' style for all multiline

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